Define interspecific competition and intraspecific competition
What is an interspecific competition between individuals of different species competing for the same resource and what is an intraspecific competition between individuals of the same species competing for the same resource (food, living space, mate)
Give an example of a generalist species
Raccoon, Mosquitoes, Cockroach
Higher education for women will increase/decrease the population
What is decrease
What is the difference between weather and climate?
Climate refers to long-term average expectation over the various seasons at a given location
What makes acid rain?
What is nitrogen oxides and sulfur oxides
What is the formula for net primary productivity
What is NPP = GPP - R
Wolves play an important role in the ecosystem in Yellowstone because they are ...
What is keystone species
The maximum population size of a species that can be sustained by the Earth
What is carrying capacity
What do we call the “longest day of the year”
What is June solstice
How does noise pollution affect animals?
It stresses the animals, can cause changes in migration routes, damage hearing, and can mask sounds used to communicate or hunt
Two organisms of different species working together benefiting from the relationship
What is mutualism
Why does a large island have a higher diversity than a small island?
There will be a wider variety of habitats for species to fill up, which can support a larger population
What type of shape is this graph showing?
What is J-shape
Why is the ozone important and wherein the atmosphere is found?
The ozone is important because it absorbs UV radiation and is found in the stratosphere
Why were scrubbers invented?
They remove particulates
Has no sunlight and extreme temperatures near freezing despite all this some organisms still live there
What is the abyssal zone of the ocean
What happened during the period of Triassic-Jurassic
What is Pangea begins to drift apart, two large continents form Laurasia (north) and Gondwana (south); the climate is warm
Is the population growing, shrinking, or stable?
What is growing
List the names of each layer of the atmosphere in order from closest to farthest
Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, Exosphere
This device is used in car engines to convert harmful pollutants to less harmful molecules
What is catalytic converter
List the steps of the carbon cycle
What is photosynthesis, decomposition, respiration, and combustion
Atmosphere/ocean -->photosynthesis -->cellular respiration /decomposition -->atmosphere/ocean
Come up with an experiment and give me an independent variable, dependent variable, and a control variable
Independent variable - What is being manipulated by the experimenter
Dependent variable - The response of what is being measured
Control variable - Factors that are kept the same across the experiment
What is the difference between r-species and K-selected species? Give an example of each r and K species and why they are r and K species?
r-species are generalized, short life span, large numbers, can live anywhere, fast maturation and K-selected species are specialized, slow maturation, long life span, specialized where they can live, small numbers of offsprings.
Ex: Raccon r-species can live anywhere since they can eat anything
K-selected species Panda can only live in South Central China where there is bamboo (Only thing they can eat)
Name each layer
Topsoil, Subsoil, Parent Rock, Bedrock
How does thermal inversion occur? Why is this bad?
Cooler air and warm air flip, Earth surface is cooler than air at higher altitudes. The hot air traps pollution on the surface of the Earth. This is bad because pollution is traped to the ground which is bad for us.